Ecolab (ECL) Return on Capital Employed (2009 - 2025)

Ecolab's Return on Capital Employed history runs 17 years deep, the most recent figure standing at 14.59% for Q4 2025.

• Quarterly Return on Capital Employed fell 147.0% year-over-year to 14.59% in Q4 2025, while the trailing twelve-month figure through Dec 2025 was 14.59% (down 147.0% YoY) and the FY2025 annual result came in at 15.2%, down 97.0% from the prior year.
• Return on Capital Employed was 14.59% for Q4 2025 at Ecolab, up from 13.29% in the prior quarter.
• Across five years, Return on Capital Employed topped out at 16.46% in Q3 2024 and bottomed at 7.34% in Q1 2021.
• A 5-year average of 10.99% and a median of 10.36% in 2021 frame the typical range for Return on Capital Employed.
• Annual changes were most pronounced in 2021 — Return on Capital Employed plunged 366 bps — and 2024, when it surged 685 bps.
• Ecolab's Return on Capital Employed stood at 8.26% in 2021, then climbed by 11 bps to 9.17% in 2022, then increased by 0 bps to 9.21% in 2023, then surged by 74 bps to 16.06% in 2024, then declined by 9 bps to 14.59% in 2025.
• Business Quant data shows ECL's Return on Capital Employed at 14.59% in Q4 2025, 13.29% in Q3 2025, and 12.73% in Q2 2025.